The Benefits and Challenges of Home Cooking During the Pandemic

Overview of the impact of COVID-19 on the food industry The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the food industry, affecting everything from how we shop for food to how restaurants operate. The sudden shift towards social distancing and remote work has led to changes in consumer behavior, forcing the food industry to quickly adapt. The shift towards home cooking during the…

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is there a word for being horny for food because that's my constant state of mind

Scrimbly Jacqueline 19/20: I gave her a cloak. bitches love cloaks! (i'm bitches)

I also drew her staff! She has one, too :)

This nearly became Sorceress-Warlock Jacqueline from THIS AU. Didn't feel like drawing that fit tho so it's just regular canon Jacqueline, lol. (but picturing the scars and the eye patch she doesn't actually need but wears for the aesthetic was a FUN mental image at the beginning of the week! then the horrors persisted and I went WHO HAS THE SPOONS. NOT ME)

Drawing the whooshy cloak was fun. Colouring it was even MORE fun. I was going CRAZY last night trying to find a post I made where I described Jacqueline's staff?? I COULDN'T FUCKING FIND IT AND I S2G I READ IT THE OTHER DAY. LIKE EARLIER THIS WEEK. So hopefully my visual memory served me WELL and I don't find the post and go FUCKING EH at a later date, lol.

this scrimbly was very much a scrimbly lol. I think it took me like 10 minutes to doodle. I'm having a LOW ENERGY WEEK. Feelin burnt out af and dreading the weekend! Woo! Almost DIDN'T scrimbly! Thinking this week's little down spin is gonna push back Frostmas crossposting which is SUPER RUDE bc like. THE AESTHETIC. UPDATING ON THE UNLUCKY DAY. BOO!

RIGHT. DANI RANTS ASIDE, WANT SOME CS LORE/FACTS? BC I GOT SOME! WOO:

All four Frosts would pass the warlock test--the question is, do they fully embrace it? Fino does. Fiera does but like, second to the summer sprite training. Jack learns what's useful/what he wants/needs to. Jacqueline was FINE not warlocking, she's good with the snow, BUT Jack keeps nagging her to at LEAST take the test and when she passes it he's like c'mon. c'mon. warlock training. you know you want tooo I could teach youuuuu

She holds off for a VERY long time then gets schemey brain a couple of centuries down the line and goes for it. It's spoilery and I do want to keep this one close to my chest, BUT:

Essentially she learns that she has something someone needs/wants back and she can only do that by getting into the Warlock training! She uses this to try and bring two estranged people closer and when it doesn't go well she hits Jack up after hours and is like "so my plan is going. hmm. bad. let's start warlock training?" and Jack's like YEAH LET'S FUCKING GOOOO bc A) he told her so. B) he;s been wanting to get her started with the warlock biz for YEARS! AND out of ALL THE TEACHERS SHE'S COMING TO HIM (well. unofficially) and C) he is also enjoying the tea from her little scheme and about the two people in question, lol.

Anyway, enjoy the scrimble! Next week is some prohibition fun ft. Winter, I THINK. I'll have to check my notes 🤔🤔🤔

(and yes the heart clasp and pink in the staff are bc Dite)

In modern au Childe would be the type of guy to eat anything and everything and still be fit while Scara cannot eat chicken wings without getting a tummy.

i am cooking dinner!! who will be my hot butch husband who will be so thankful to come home to it after a long hard day at work and surely will reward me by doing nasty terrible things to my body

I’m cooking some of my meals for this week and I can’t help but imagine reader and lewis doing it together. just domestic bliss and tooth rotting fluff. even cleaning up afterwards would be fun *sobs into my hands*

making a soup today bc of that post yippee

New oc just dropped, his name is sadie and I'm writing him into my wip crater city‼️ (first 2 are picrews, last image is a rough sketch)

About him:

Friends with Blair

Tends to drag others in his trouble

Attends a cult loves meeting with his esoteric friends at an irradiated lake to exchange recipes

Opens any bag like a bag of chips

Would go above and beyond to do things "for the meme"

Conspiracy theorist

Is on the fbi watch list

Probably hasn't washed his hair in weeks

Crater City Taglist (dm to be added/removed): @writeouswriter @lyra-brie @digitalsatyr23 @talesfromtheunknowable

sometimes you made a basque cheesecake yesterday and it's in the fridge and you're gonna get to eat it today

for definitions of 'you' that = 'me'

and those times are. good times 🍰🥰🍰

i used to rlly enjoy the try guys and in a way its a good thing that they changed their whole thang but like. it kinda sucks lol

Forgot to post this yesterday but I managed to get out yesterday! We had a cold snap where it was super icy and snowed but it warmed up enough to warrant getting back to running!

I didn't go as far, but I did make it out. I'm slowly running more than power walking and it's showing through my run times! I started out with a whopping 17:00 pace and I'm a little less than 16:00 now!

Maybe by May I could run continuously for 20 minutes! That'd be neat!

Weighed myself this morning and I'm down roughly a pound, so my hard work is paying off!

Sw: 187.6

Cw: 186.2

local man wants soup at midnight

It is genuinely so hard to concentrate on a recipe when it has a million of ads and makes you lose your place where you're reading -_-

i am chatty today because i've got ✨The Anxieties✨

i choose to stop two choirs this year cause i didn't have fun like before (a long while, actually) and i had said to friends "i will come back with you to this other choir, the one we met all in, like you already have since a year". and i really thought i would cause it would let me keep community, and a regular occasion to work on what we'd see with my singing teacher.

but in the last two months i felt so relieved and free to not have to go back to the choirs i stopped, i began feeling like going to this other one would be again 'stiffling', even tho it's at a very low level (beginner level, altho a good beginner level). and that it would become a chore again.

i went to the open session yesterday and seeing all my friends and having fun in the warm up was really, really nice. but the choir work in itself, while of good sound quality and with a good chef, was so sloooow to my own needs. and we can't talk for real when in session, or just quick when the voice working is changing, so it's texting or nothing.

and i felt that i would be soon unfulfilled / bored in it, of the pace, and also the songs are nice but not really my taste (it was once 100%, but now it's only 50% to what i heard was planned.)

cons : - lot of people, mask is somehow accepted. i don't want to go back to singing in mask because it's really hard and creates problems which i have already, in terms of Singing. but given how covid moves lately i also don't want to be in 60 people's company in one medium room without a mask. - "slow" pace, potentially boring "what am i doing here" thinking. i could definitively bring something to do, or just read or something, as lot of people do, but i don't want my choir experience to be "you come for 2 hours and, besides warming up, you sing 15 of them". i know a good numbers of good / high level singers are in this choir and don't mind cause the ambiance is really nice, the quality is here, and the community is good, but i don't think i would have liked it. - i already have three weeks a night taken (danse, tv night with friend<3, and instrument soon if i'm not averse to it after the trial class tonight). going to choir would make it four nights a week taken every weeks (unless i double one night which is possible but not ideal especially on the long term). and i want that time to try new things / try to go forward in my life ! - i don't want to double down on my "choir the last years has been more of a duty sometimes than anything else" and continue and risk disliking it even more. i feel like simply singing in the grass or in a church with friends brings me much more pleasure, simple giddy fulfilling and without anxieties. yeah i can't sing masterpieces i've been dreaming to sing since years, needing 40 persons, but those masterpieces are not going away. they will still be sung in years and years (indodana and baba yetu my beloved)(that, funnily enough, are going to be sung this year in one of the choir i left lol. didn't change my decision) - having "one night more" gives me a little more time to try to be more active in reaching out to friends and proposing drinks or outings or so (....maybe. that's the plan. "if you wish you had a friend like that, be that friend" post)

pros : - singing and spending a little time every week with my friends, who as adult is hard to do in other circomstances ! - not feeling like my friends are having fun and sharing time together and i'm all alone not being there :( - working on what i'm working on with my singing teacher... maybe (loosing your long-time used crutches / wrong things you did because you didn't know better is very hard in context of choir where you body has sooo many automatisms)

So cons are winning a lot. but i'm so scared i'm making the wrong choice !! especially imagining them all having fun and feeling like i'm the one not there, shunned of my own desire. it uh. it hit a little bit deep in the never healed wound in my heart.

Paprika Hendl alternate recipe for if you can't eat onion or tomato like me

Hey DracDaily club! Thanks for making the past several months such a unique moment in time, I've had a blast.

I made the famous paprika hendl but mercilessly modified it so I could actually eat it. It's definitely not traditional, but it is tasty. Thanks to @imaginariumgeographica for providing this traditional recipe from Hungarian Classics by Chefparade Cooking School Budapest, edited by László Kócsa:

Since I can't eat onions, tomatoes, or peppers other than paprika (thank you SO much for introducing me to Hungarian paprika, everyone!!), I omitted them. I substituted celery for the onions. Instead of the tomato and yellow peppers, I added some pumpkin for extra veg/sauce texture.

Note!! If you can get a hold of it, hing (aka asafoetida) powder is a great substitute for aromatics like onions or garlic, but made from the fennel plant instead. You may be able to find it at an Asian grocer or somewhere that sells Indian spices. Personally, I find it very soothing on the stomach. It's a great option if you have acid reflux or something similar and need to avoid alliums. I sprinkled a moderate amount of hing powder (maybe 1/2 tablespoon) over the hot oil at the beginning before adding the celery. I highly recommend it to replace some of that lost oniony flavor, it's quite strong.

I followed the recipe for everything else, and it turned out great and very flavorful. Although I would recommend doubling the Hungarian paprika, it could easily take a lot more - this is a bit of a Jonathan version lol.

Happy Dead Drac Day!

So annoyingg